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The Night Thoreau
Spent in Jail
A Play in Two Acts
by Jerome Lawrence
and Robert E. Lee
A Samuel French Acting Edition
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Copyright © 1970 by Lawrence & Lee, Inc.
Copyright © 1972 (Revised) by Lawrence & Lee, Inc.
Copyright © 1998, 2000 by Jerome Lawrence and Janet Waldo Lee
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